Definitions for: Eke

Webster (1913) Definition: Eke ([=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Eked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Eking.] [AS. [=e]kan, [=y]kan; akin to OFries, [=a]ka, OS.
?kian, OHG. ouhh[=o]n to add, Icel. auka to increase, Sw.
["o]ka, Dan. ["o]ge, Goth. aukan, L. augere, Skr. ?jas
strength, ugra mighty, and probably to English wax, v. i. Cf.
Augment, Nickname.]
To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with
out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a
laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a
scanty supply of one kind with some other. ``To eke my
pain.'' --Spenser.

He eked out by his wits an income of barely fifty
pounds. --Macaulay.

Eke, adv. [AS. e['a]c; akin to OFries. ['a]k, OS. ?k, D.
?ok, OHG. ouh, G. auch, Icel. auk, Sw. och and, Dan. og,
Goth. auk for, but. Prob. from the preceding verb.]
In addition; also; likewise. [Obs. or Archaic]

'T will be prodigious hard to prove That this is eke
the throne of love. --Prior.

A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town.
--Cowper.

Note: Eke serves less to unite than to render prominent a
subjoined more important sentence or notion.
--M["a]tzner.

Eke, n.
An addition. [R.]

Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. --Geddes.

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